March 19, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Tensions over Crimea may not cause a new Cold War, but instead a long period of confrontation.
- Ukraine may be able write off $5 billion in debt to Russia.
- Reported death of the "Russian bin Laden" cannot yet be confirmed.
- Experiment shows fewer people performed tasks they didn't want to do when asked by a robot boss, as opposed to a human.
- Farmers end up richer than their parents, librarians wind up poorer.
- Researchers find loss of sleep cannot be made up for and leads to an irreversible loss of brain cells.
- Urban-farming trend leads to abandoned chickens filling animal shelters.
- Seattle is right to regulate ridesharing apps like Uber, but a driver cap is silly, arbitrary, and impossible to police.
- Courtney Love searches for Malaysia Air Flight 370.
- Stunning images of the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP Oil Spill.
- NASA concludes that income inequality and environmental abuse will result in civilization's imminent collapse.
- Brief history of manicured lawns finds roots in European aristocracy, golf, and bowls.
- Visiting a bear sanctuary can be a way to cure your bear phobia—or turn it into a full-blown obsession.
- When menstruating, rural women in Nepal and Bangladesh sleep in sheds and perform annual rites for their period-related "sins."
- Artist poses children from around the world with their "favorite things."
- Overview of what "swagger jacking"—aka, imitation—means in contemporary hip-hop.
- Poet who faked his own suicide at 26 died last week at 74.
- Man writes his own obituary.
